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Your home is collateral for your mortgage. If the borrower does not pay as agreed the lender can accelerate the mortgage and then places a lien on the property. Along those same lines, however, when the borrower pays off the loan, the lender gives the borrower a satisfaction of mortgage. The satisfaction of mortgage removes the lien on the property.

The foreclosure progress begins with the lender’s attorney filing a summons and a complaint to the borrower and any other parties that may have rights in the property.  A trial is held, but once the borrower is notified the borrower has twenty days to respond to the complaint.  By responsing to the complaint, the borrower can challenge the lender on the foreclosure lawsuit.  If the borrower challenges the foreclosure, the court has 40 days to respond back to the borrower.  Each challenge must be related to the mortgage foreclosure.  This process can go back and forth between the lender and the borrower as long as the borrower finds something incorrect information in the complaint. This, of course, slows the foreclosure proceedings because it must be heard in court.  By virtue of the back and forth of this procedure many homeowners can stay in their homes for months often years after they have stopped paying their mortgage.

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